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    Writing Advice

    Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

    “I think writing is mainly work.”

     
    By Sam Weller  July 11, 2025
    In Memoriam

    “Let Me Tell You What I Love.” Remembering Fanny Howe

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 10, 2025
    Reality TV

    How I Survived the Toxic Cult of America’s Next Top Model

    By Sarah Hartshorne  July 9, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Our 33 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2025

    By Drew Broussard  July 8, 2025
    The Natural World

    On Killing a Coyote

    By Helen Whybrow  July 7, 2025
    The Big List

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Writing

    The Agonies and Ecstasies of a Slow Book Project

    By Stephanie Elizondo Griest  June 30, 2025
    AI

    Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

    By Literary Hub  June 27, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

    By Paul Bradley Carr  June 26, 2025
    In Memoriam

    Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship

    Michael T. Luongo on the Loss of a Great Writer and Mentor

    By Michael T. Luongo  July 11, 2025
    Law

    Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Reading Lists

    5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 24, 2025
    Fascism

    The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

    By Ed Simon  June 23, 2025
    Food Writing

    “Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

    Klara Feenstra Considers the Legacy of “The Gastronomical Me”

    By Klara Feenstra  June 23, 2025
    Free Speech

    “Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

    By Kamila Shamsie  June 20, 2025
    Censorship

    Welcome to Pensacola, Florida, America’s Book-Banning Capital

    By Ira Wells  June 18, 2025
    Class

    What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

    By Lee Cole  June 17, 2025
    Spy Novels

    A Writer For Our Time: Why John le Carré’s Work Remains More Essential Than Ever

    Rav Grewal-Kök on the Enduring Literary Legacy of an Undisputed Master of the Spy Novel

    By Rav Grewal-Kök  June 16, 2025
    Fact Checking

    Lies, Damn Lies, and Magazine Pieces: On the Cursed Art of Fact Checking

    By Isabel Clara Ruehl  June 16, 2025
    Prehistory

    How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

    By Merijn van de Laar  June 13, 2025
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 12, 2025
    True Crime

    Poisoned City: How Tacoma Became a Hotbed of Crime and Kidnapping in the 1920s

    Caroline Fraser on the Intersection of Environmental Contamination and Violence in the Pacific Northwest

    By Caroline Fraser  June 10, 2025
    American Poetry

    On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

    By Susan Gubar  June 9, 2025
    American Politics

    From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

    By Deborah Baker  June 3, 2025
    Wrestling

    “Shakespeare in a Ring.” Hulk Hogan and the Rise of Pro Wrestling in the American Psyche

    By Marc Raimondi  June 25, 2025
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